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Court Weighs Heavy docket

Professor Pamela Karlan is quoted in the below Washington Post article discussing how a decision on the health-care law could be “transformative or could turn out to be a fizzle.”

The Supreme Court convenes Monday for what could be the most significant term of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s six-year tenure, with an agenda that both reflects the nation's political landscape and offers the potential to reshape
it.

The dominant theme is the one that has divided the country and fueled the debate between tea party Republicans and President Obama since the 2010 election: the extent of the federal government's power.

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A decision on the health-care law "could turn out to be transformative or
could turn out to be a fizzle," said Pamela Karlan, a constitutional expert at
Stanford Law School.